Yesterday I saw this meme inward my Facebook feed, in addition to it seemed similar a perfect subject for the day:
Have y'all ever thought about
how much of life is just a serial of obstacles
keeping y'all from sewing?
My signal exactly. Frankly, I can't fifty-fifty holler upwards what I did yesterday, which makes me mad. How tin I complain if I can't holler upwards what I did? It's a proficient affair I move along my photographic tv set camera amongst me at all times, documenting life equally I go. Sometimes I piece of job it during the twenty-four hours to review...just inward case, I've forgotten what I was doing correct inward the middle of doing it. And if you're similar me, that belike happens fairly frequently. So anyway...
I tried this recipe for Pink Pickled Turnips. Pretty, huh?
So here's the thing: We teach turnips inward our CSA shares, in addition to I've got nil against turnips. Nevertheless, they seem similar a wintertime vegetable to me, thus I don't know what to practice amongst them inward the summer. Enter the internet, which is ever providing me amongst agency to a greater extent than recipes than I'll ever own got fourth dimension to endeavour fifty-fifty if I alive 3 consecutive lifetimes. This i has but a few ingredients, including i minor beet. And I own got a couplet of beets rolling around inward my vegetable crisper, thus give thank y'all you real much.
This recipe doesn't fifty-fifty take away whatsoever processing. You but pare in addition to cutting the vegetables into wedges, mix upwards the pickling solution, pour it into a jar, popular it into the refrigerator, in addition to you're done. Except for the eating, which y'all own got to hold back a calendar week for. Bummer. So I own got no thought how this is going to taste, but I'm anxiously awaiting adjacent Sat to opened upwards it in addition to endeavour it. (Drums fingers on table.) Also, y'all mightiness wishing to know that I tin never uncovering the required Fresno chiles inward my grocery store, or fifty-fifty at the Farmer's market, thus I substituted a one-half teaspoon of crushed carmine pepper.
Last twelvemonth I started a folder for recipes that use CSA veggies. Thanks to the internet, my folder is instantly 2 inches thick amongst recipes. When I picked upwards final week's share, I decided to teach through them in addition to clit some out to try. This i for Spinach & Artichoke Rustic Tart was foremost on the list. And this was surprisingly easy.
You'll either own got to piece of job your ain crust recipe, or click on the link for their crust. Theirs uses white wine, thus count me in. The crust was actually good, in addition to slow to piece of job with. Their recipe makes plenty for 2 crusts, but I solely wanted a unmarried one. I used but one-half the recipe, which meant splitting an egg inward half. Instead, I used but the egg white inward the crust, but don't practice anything amongst that leftover yolk, because you'll piece of job it to brush on the crust but earlier baking the tart. Perfect. Also, the recipe didn't tell me what to practice amongst the dried oregano, but I figured they must wishing me to sprinkle it over the top, thus that's what I did.
And here's the other affair almost this recipe: Do y'all ever own got leftover ricotta cheese? It seems similar you're forced to purchase a xv oz. carton, in addition to generally, y'all don't piece of job the whole thing. So I ever stick plastic twine over the unused portion, in addition to that extends the life some, but non forever. And usually, I halt upwards throwing out the final of it. But this recipe uses a total cup, thus i time to a greater extent than I say, give thank y'all you real much. I but happened to own got some leftover inward my fridge.
And this was actually good. We liked it a lot. There is some left over, in addition to it volition live proficient for breakfast.
I served it amongst a side salad of Cherry Tomato Salad amongst Tarragon. I didn't own got whatsoever fresh tarragon, thus I used a teaspoon of dried. And, no, I did non pare the cherry tomatoes. I mightiness live crazy, but I'm non insane.
So in that place I was at the halt of the day, in addition to I couldn't holler upwards what I'd done other than a whole lotta food-related stuff. I'm certain in that place was something, but without pictures, who knows what it was? Are in that place whatsoever unsolved crimes inward your neighborhood? Possibly it was me. So anyway...I decided to accept a walk inward the garden to restoreth my soul, in addition to who should I come across but this guy. He was resting on i of the sage blossoms.
And human face at the plenitude of cherry tomatoes on the hanging cherry tomato plant plant! None own got ripened yet. Do y'all suppose it's an evil plot to fill upwards me amongst desire, in addition to thus never ripen? It's variety of the even out of my life where tomatoes are concerned. Still, it's solely June, thus I'm hopeful.
Speaking of evil plots...the cherry trees. The cherries are starting to ripen. These are the Bings.
These are the Black Tartarians.
I fully human face to walk out this morn in addition to uncovering the tree completely devoid of cherries, the raccoons having partied the nighttime away. I'm pretty certain I heard Lionel Richie singing "All Night Long" final night.
But here's something they won't eat...the zucchini...which is sporting its foremost blossom.
Around the corner from the zucchini are the twenty-four hours lilies but foremost to open. You own got to live quick amongst these. They aren't called "day" lilies for nothin'.
The foremost buds are appearing on the echinacea. The appear to live munched past times slugs, which is variety of surprising, but I'll throw out some slug candy for them today.
Also, the foremost blossoms are foremost to opened upwards on the hydrangeas. This pinkish one...
in addition to this bluish i are on the same plant.
This adjacent i is the regal i gifted to me from Erik in addition to Mae. Mae keeps thinking the color volition alter i of these years, but it's yet looking regal to me.
The greenhouse tomatoes are almost the size of walnuts now. Still a ways to teach earlier these volition live develop for salsa or sauce.
And I can't teach over the plums on the plum tree. I've never seen it thus fruitful inward the dozen or thus years since nosotros planted it.
Our vegetable garden, neglected for several years now, is a tangle of weeds. I think it's been almost 5 years since nosotros planted whatsoever vegetables. Our final vegetable garden was almost a consummate failure, in addition to thus we've been reluctant to laissez passer on it some other try. Maybe adjacent year. For now, it's a wildflower haven. Yesterday I noticed this unmarried poppy growing correct inward the middle. Now how practice y'all suppose?
Also...these petty wild daisies.
The blooming grasses are causing me no halt of grief this allergy season, but they are pretty.
And thus this guy, er, gal. I figure in that place own got to live homo ladybugs, don't you?
Anyway, I said to myself, "Oh, there's that naughty mint coming upwards where it isn't planted." But when I rubbed the leaves on it, it turned out to live catnip. So manifestly catnip volition come upwards dorsum if I don't practice anything...including planting it myself...but when it comes to the Gracie Memorial Catnip Garden, I must replant it every spring. I'm telling you, life is a serial of imponderables...and obstacles keeping me from sewing.
Speaking of obstacles to sewing...the sometime RV. It's yet hanging around here, but today we're unloading everything into the novel RV. There are a couplet of minor fry repairs to brand on it, in addition to quite a chip of cleaning, in addition to then, we'll live putting it upwards for sale. We're hoping it goes fast because it's looking a petty chip similar an RVB&B around hither correct now. Also, I'm going to endeavour some other recipe from my CSA recipe stack. And, hopefully, in that place volition live sewing. Hope springs eternal, but don't count on it.